Just to add to Ashish's response...

You may want to make sure that H12 is non-empty--otherwise "**" will match the
first entry.

=if(h12="","",vlookup(....

Ashish Mathur wrote:

Hi,

Try this

=VLOOKUP("*"&H12&"*",'booked pivot'!G:H,2,FALSE)

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Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"ryguy7272" wrote in message
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Here is my function:
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(H12,'booked pivot'!G:H,2,FALSE)),0,VLOOKUP(H12,'booked
pivot'!G:H,2,FALSE))

I am trying to get Excel to evaluate this string in cell H12:
"US-MD"

The data looks like this:
Medscape - US-HCP - Cardiology - 728x90 - Top, 03/01/2009
Medscape - US-MD - Cardiology - 120x600 - LR, 03/01/2009

Any ideas on how to do this?


Thanks,
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